Wild Horses Sold for $25 | Philadelphia News

The Bureau of Land Management is quietly selling thousands of wild horses for as little as $25 each, turning them into de facto livestock and stripping them of federal protections — a loophole that funnels them toward slaughter. With sales doubling in 2025 to over 3,700 horses, the government spends $3,000 to capture and process each mustang only to pocket a fraction of that cost. Animal advocates call it a subsidy for slaughter, as these horses can fetch up to $750 at slaughterhouses. Holding 58,000 horses costs $100 million annually — nearly all of the bureau’s $142 million budget — while Congress blocks killing healthy horses, forcing reliance on costly holding and ineffective fertility control. The system now prioritizes moving horses out, even if it means enabling their eventual slaughter through opaque sales chains that vanish once horses hit middlemen. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/762f77285b996fdc